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Building High-Performance, High-Trust Organizations

Decentralization 2.0

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Gerrit Broekstra

    1. Nyenrode Business University, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Complexity is a consequence of living in a sandpile world

    • Gerrit Broekstra
    Pages 1-23

  3. Only variety absorbs complexity

    • Gerrit Broekstra
    Pages 24-49

  4. Top-down decentralization and the folly of power

    • Gerrit Broekstra
    Pages 50-97

  5. Going against the grain: aborted bottom-up decentralization

    • Gerrit Broekstra
    Pages 98-118

  6. Common-sense decentralization by working with human nature—not against it

    • Gerrit Broekstra
    Pages 119-160

  7. Deep leadership provides the social glue keeping high-variety organizations together

    • Gerrit Broekstra
    Pages 161-184

  8. Epilogue

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    Pages 185-191

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 192-200
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About this book

Some vanguard companies have evolved to a higher level of decentralization originating in the enabling-and-autonomy paradigm. A new kind of deep leadership is practiced by these spirit-driven organizations. This book brings together theory and case studies to cover historical origins and developments of both types of decentralization.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Nyenrode Business University, The Netherlands

    Gerrit Broekstra

About the author

Originally a physicist with a life-long interest in the complexity sciences, Gerrit Broekstra is Professor Emeritus of Organization Behavior at the Nyenrode Business University, the Netherlands. He was previously a professor and dean at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands, and a visiting professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA.

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